Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-08-05
A Romance Of Real Life.

Speaker Hustled, says the NsN
York Tribune, can give the point.
for a good plot to the coming Ameri
can novelist There is O family 0
great wealth in the city of Albany
said he the other day, which has {
singular origin. During the Revoh
tionary War there was a Quaker fam
lily living in Westchester county whi
was in sympathy with the British
He became so obnoxious 10 his patri.
otic American neighbors that whel
the British army evacuated New
York he deemed it prudent with othel
Tories to depart with them. III
went to Nova Scotia Pretty soot
his wife, who had been lefs in charge
of the farm, heard that he had died
They had one child, boy, who We
a baby at that time.
The widow was an energetic wo-
man, and she ran the farm successful
ly. Eighteen years passed after beg
husband had fed, when one cold win
ter night at supper time, as the wild.
ow and her boy were about to take
their seats at the supper table cover.
ed with food, she heard o knock at
the door. She opened the door, and
locking out she saw a grey-bearded
man.
II am stranger in this country, ("
said the man, and there is no hotel
near. Would yos permit me to sleep
In your house tonight"
She said: II will,n and let him
in the house He took supper with
them.
When bedtime came he eaidi Il
do not wish to cause unnecessary
trouble. You need not prepare the
guest chamber for mel will sleep
with the boy"
She consented
As the boy was undressing the
stranger said:
"Do you know thai am your
father?"
The boy was astonished. II have
been told that he Is dead"
at is not true" the stranger said.
II am thy father"
He then told his son that he had
returned from Nova Scotia to the
United States under an assumed
name, had begun business life anew
On Long Island and had married
again and had several children. He
asked his son to get away from the
farm shortly on some excuse and
visit him for brief period.
The next morning the stranger de-
parted, After he had gone the
mother said to her son: "What did
thy father say to thee?"
The boy stammerod the reply
"Why, did you recognize him
mother?"
"She replied; II knew him the
he opened the door. But Of.
ter deserting me all these years l was
not going to reveal to him that /
knew him. What d'1 he desire thee
to do?n
The boy answered.: "He wanted
me to visit him at least once q year."
The abandoned wife thought for
and said: Thee can visit
thy father"
The son did go for few years. and
then the intercourse of the two fami-
lies ceased. The sons mother died;
and the son continued to till tie farm.
One day many years Gfler these
man driving O hand
some buggy drove up before the sons
house. He went out and found a fine
looking young man just hitching the
horse
Have you any idea who I ann"
said the young man to the farmer.
"Yes," replied the farmer, lc coking
at him intently; ''you are my broth
er." The young man then told his
brother that their father had just died
on Long Island, leaving large for
tune.
"Well, I want none of It," said the
farmer; my mother is the only one
that l desire to inherit money from"
And he signed away oil claim to a
share in the Long Island property
One of the members of that Long
Island family took large portion of
his fathers fortune to Albany, and it
now forms part of the possession of
one of the wealthiest families In the
,ity.